NaN and #IND will return double or float on gettype, while some inexistent values, like division by zero, will return as a boolean FALSE. 0 by the 0th potency returns 1, even though it is mathematically indetermined.

After some testing I found a bug in my function "myGetType":The check for "is_callable" was done before "is_string", so that something like <?php echo myGetType("max"); ?> would output: "function reference" instead of "string"

"is_callable" and "is_string" can't be checked together in this method, so I've removed the check for is_callable because it's a very rare usage case and if it's a valid string the check for is_callable never executes because is_string would be reached first (or vice-versa).

This function returns string representation of type. This is generalization of get_class(). I try to order is_* tests by density of occurence, but is bad idea to use result of this call in conditions for performance reasons, usefull and better than gettype for debugging messages.
Note, that last line should not be never executed.
Also has no sense to make input parameter optional.

I wrote my own gettype function by just using the default is_? functions, but it took twice as long as gettype... So I decided to use gettype with a twist.

Taking the warnings about gettype to heart, and depending on your custom needs, it's worthwhile to dynamically test the gettype result with a known variable, and link the result to a predefined result. Like so:

<?php/* dynamically create an array by using known variable types link with a predefined value*/$R=array();$R[gettype(.0)]='number';$R[gettype(0)]='number';$R[gettype(true)]='boolean';$R[gettype('')]='string';$R[gettype(null)]='null';$R[gettype(array())]='array';$R[gettype(new stdClass())]='object';